Lowering the speed limit to 25 MPH would save many lives.
Banning abortion clinics would save millions of lives...
well formed criteria for a goal considers ratio of benefits to costs, ratio of benefits to risk, and ratio of benefits to harms
I disagree. They worst argument ever is “we have to do something”.
“As a professional rhetorician and teacher of rhetoric...”
Stopped reading right there.
There are 70 people in a bus driving down a two lane road covered in ice, the mountains on one side and a cliff with a 300 foot drop on the other.
A lone man suddenly appears in the path of the bus and you are the driver.
What do you do?
All you need to do is talk to a person who lives in a country were ‘socialized’ medicine is the ONLY medicine.
If that doesn’t change your mind (or at least, open your mind a little)... you’re already dead
Does he mean...arguwoment?
Drugs no more kill people than guns do. People sometimes kill, and more often don't, using drugs or guns.
No, the “if it only saves one life” crowd remains firmly opposed to any such measures.
Actually, I seem to recall “if it only saves one life” tossed out on FR as a pro-Drug-War argument.
Those supporting the Brady waiting period way back when used that argument.
After it was implemented, some newspaper reported that a woman whose ex had threatened to kill her tried to buy a handgun and was told, due to the new law, she’d have to wait five days.
In the meantime, hubby came over, kicked in the sliding glass door and stabbed her to death with a Garand bayonet.
The newspaper asked “What if the law kills just one person?” No answer, and the story disappeared. I think the Rifleman reprinted it.
I’ve yet to face that argument, but would ask the same question, and fully expect the answer would be “Look! There’s Elvis!”
When ever the powers that be or what ever mob is screaming about ‘’the common good’’ it’s important to remember that what ever is for the ‘’common good’’ is neither common nor good.